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This Week at #IMPRI
(2021 | W51 | December 20 - December 26)

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Anshula Mehta IMPRI

Dear IMPRI Well-wisher,

Season's Greetings for Christmas 2021 and the New Year 2022!

The IMPRI Team wishes you a season of love, peace, joy and sharing, and hopes for good health and wellbeing for you and your loved ones.

This week's #WebPolicyTalks explore public policy drivers, and, in the new year, move to cohesive development, the peri-urban, and governance in India's small cities and towns, to begin with.

The newsletter, as always, will apprise you of these upcoming events, IMPRI's recent publications, and videos of #WebPolicyTalks in case you missed them.

We hope to see you soon at one of our #WebPolicyTalks!

Wishing you the best for the week ahead,
Anshula Mehta, Senior Assistant Director, IMPRI

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Upcoming #WebPolicyTalks
Register to attend!

Special Lecture | #PublicPolicy

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Bhartendra Singh Baswan, IAS (Retd.) (Former Secretary, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) on Public Policy Drivers

When: December 23, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Chair: Dr Nivedita P. Haran, IAS (Retd.) (Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala)

Discussants: Prof Jyoti Chandiramani (Symbiosis International, Pune), Prof Sanjeev Chaddha (Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Government of Punjab)

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#CohesiveDevelopment

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Prof K. Seeta Prabhu (Visiting Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Visiting Faculty, Indian School of Development Management, New Delhi) on Social Sector Policy for Cohesive Development

When: January 7, 2022 | 4:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Prof Sunil Ray (Former Director, A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna; Advisor, CDECS and IMPRI)

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#CityConversations

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Prof Vishal Narain (Professor, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon) on Gendering Vulnerability Research in the Peri-urban

When: January 14, 2022 | 6:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay (Associate Professor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

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#CityConversations

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Dr Tariq Thachil (Director, Center for Advanced Study of India (CASI); Associate Professor of Political Science, and Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania) on Governance Challenges in India’s Small Towns

When: January 18, 2022 | 6:30 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

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#CohesiveDevelopment

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Prof Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Emeritus Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata; Adjunct Professor, Monash University) on The Role of Equality for Cohesive Development

When: January 19, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Prof Sunil Ray (Former Director, A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna; Advisor, CDECS and IMPRI)

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#CityConversations

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Prof René Véron (Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland) on Small Cities and Environmental Governance in Gujarat and West Bengal: Need for external intervention or capacity building?

When: January 28, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay (Associate Professor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

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Latest Publications

Insights Blog

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Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programme (ESDP) – Policy Update 2021 by Khushi Somani | #IMPRI insights

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Kisan Movement Over, Now What? by Devender Singh | #IMPRI insights

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Gender Equity and COVID-19: Dalit Standpoints by Smita M. Patil | #IMPRI insights

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Tribal TB Initiative: Policy Update-2021 by Srimoyee Biswas | #IMPRI insights

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Essential Defence Service Act – Policy Update 2021 by Anondeeta Chakraborty | #IMPRI insights

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Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) – Policy Update 2021 by Sneha Bisht | #IMPRI insights

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How to Grow a YouTube Channel? by Rohit Mehta | #IMPRI insights

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The China Effect – Sounding the Death Knell of Many Domestic Industries by Nilanjan Banik | #IMPRI insights

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National Education Mission (Samagra Shiksha Scheme) – Policy Update 2021 by Nikitha Gopi | #IMPRI insights

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Law of One’s Own? On Dalit Women’s Arduous Struggles for Social Justice by Smita M. Patil | #IMPRI insights

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Five years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India by Arun Kumar | #IMPRI insights

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This path of development is toxic by Arun Kumar | #IMPRI insights

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Not just Tourism: Ecological Sustainability of Mountains is Needed by Tikender Singh Panwar | #IMPRI insights

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India’s One Step Forward for Semiconductors by T K Arun | #IMPRI insights

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Indian Disinvestment Path: Targets and Achievements by Swati Solanki | #IMPRI insights

Books

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The State of Development Discourses: A Compendium of Deliberations – Cohesive Development 2020-21 by Sunil Ray, Arjun Kumar and Simi Mehta | IMPRI Books

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The State of Gender Equality: A Compendium of Deliberations – Gender Gaps 2020 by Govind Kelkar, Simi Mehta, Anshula Mehta and Ritika Gupta | IMPRI Books

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The State of Gender Equality: A Compendium of Deliberations – Gender Gaps 2021 by Vibhuti Patel, Simi Mehta, Sakshi Sharda, Anshula Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Nishi Verma and Ishika Chaudhary | IMPRI Books

JDPR (Journal)

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Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) Volume 1, Issue 4 (October – December 2020) | Towards Equality and Empowerment: Reflections amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Event Reports and More

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Private Sector Engagement and Public-Private Partnership in Health Service Delivery in India | IMPRI Event Report

Delta Vision 2050: Policy, Practice, and People | IMPRI Event Report

The State of the Peri-Urban | IMPRI Event Report

India and the Emerging Competition in the Indo-Pacific | IMPRI Event Report

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In case you missed it...

#LocalGovernance

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Dr Purnima Chauhan, IAS (Retd.) (Secretary (Retd.), Government of Himachal Pradesh) on Innovation and Empowerment of ULBs for Effective Decentralization and Accountability

Discussants: Prof Mahalaya Chatterjee (University of Calcutta), Prof Uday Shankar (Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur)

Moderator: Tikender Singh Panwar (Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

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Special Lecture | #GenderGaps

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Prof Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu (Professor, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania) on Feminist Vision of Building a Better World in the Post-pandemic Period

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Special Remarks: Ambassador Daniela Mariana Sezonov-Tane (Ambassador, Embassy of Romania in New Delhi, India)

Discussants: Prof Manisha Desai (University of Connecticut, USA), Dr Chitra Sinha (Independent Academic; Kooheji Training and Education Management, Bahrain), Prof Lakshmi Lingam (Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

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#PlanetTalks

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Prof Krishna Raj (Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Policy (CESP), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru) on Environmental Governance in India

Moderator: Dr Simi Mehta (IMPRI, New Delhi)

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Panel Discussion | #GenderGaps

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Panel Discussion on National Family Health Survey Round 5 (NFHS-5), 2019-2021 under a Gender Lens

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Panelists: Poonam Muttreja (Population Foundation of India), Prof Sayeed Unisa (IIPS, Mumbai), Ravi Duggal (Independent Sociologist, Public Health Researcher, and Activist), Prof Mala Ramanathan (SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram; Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME))

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Panel Discussion | #LocalGovernance

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Panel Discussion on COP26 and Urban Local Governance

Moderator: Tikender Singh Panwar (Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

Panelists: Prof Chetan Vaidya (Independent Urban Advisor; Former Director, SPA and NIUA, New Delhi), Prof K. K. Pandey (Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi), Dr Vikas Desai (Urban Health and Climate Resilience Center of Excellence (UHCRCE), Surat)

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#GenderGaps

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Dr Shalu Nigam (Advocate, Author, and Researcher, Gender and Human Rights) on Implementing Domestic Violence Law in India: Are we asking the right questions?

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Discussants: Prof Kanchan Mathur (Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Jaipur), Gayatri Sharma (Women Power Connect, New Delhi), Anchita Ghatak (Parichiti: Making Women Visible, Kolkata), Prof Vishav Raksha (University of Jammu)

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